Greek Myths For Children

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In this week, I read a book about Greek myths for children. When I was a child, I ever watch a custom about Greek myths. That is very interesting like Chinese myths. Now I read the Greek myths later, I deeply love the book.
In the book, the first story tells Prometheus for us. This story tells a story about a god named Prometheus, created the human satisfaction and happiness. He is also very willing to help people. Because of this, Prometheus defended human actively between human and gods, and with wisdom stole fire, to help people get fire, bring the light and warm for human, for that he sinned against the top of the Zeus, so narrow and hypocrisy Zeus crazy revenge Prometheus, lock him in the Caucasus mountain cliff, under evil eagle to pluck

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